Global Water Dances:
Dancing for Safe Water Everywhere
Time-Zone Spanning Performances to Motivate Action
5 PM in Minneapolis at the Stone Arch Bridge
June 25, 2011
Global Water Dances will celebrate the importance of water in human life with a 24-hour series of performances moving across the time zones of the world. These dances will use dance and music to blend local water issues with the global struggle to insure safe water for every human being. Global Water Dances will start with performances in countries in the South Pacific, rolling westward through the time zones. Each group will produce a 4-part site-specific performance. The first two parts will be locally produced and locally choreographed, using local musicians and dancers. In the third part, all groups will use a common theme, sharing the same piece of music and choreographic ideas. The final part aims to involve the audience.
http://www.globalwaterdances.org/
The projects that Global Site Performance has been invited to create are very exciting to us. These projects exemplify not only our passions, but also the areas of the world in which we want to move. We are interested in building ongoing cross-cultural relationships between women of multiple ethnicities. We desire to create beauty and wholeness, to make dances that are community-based, and to create multi-community events that affirm the power of women, for it is the women who weave together the fabric of the family and community.